Anyone with lung/heart damage from left breast radiation?

I have right lung damage from rads. a 3cm x 6cm area of fibrosis. They measure it every 6 months, no change. I understand once it goes to a fibrosis it wont get better. My only symptoms are a heaviness on the right side and I cough alot when I laugh and excercise.

I am sorry that you are still having problems!  Hope things get better soon.

Hi infobabe,

I have had 25 + 5 left breast radiation in summer 2010 on a linear accelerator. Because of being on Herceptin at the same time I'm in a study - controlling heart issues every year. This year too my check up was completely OK without any signs of heart damage. I'm about your age!

Best

Usha

hi I read your post and anyone with breast problems or breast cancer particularly if they have a thyroid problem (I had breast cancer in 92, 95 and 2014 and this on is aggressive triple negative and a multinodular goiter for years) read Lynn Farrow's book the iodine crisis.

It is even thought by some that iodine deficiency is the underlying cause of breast cancer and that the underlying cause of iodine deficiency or bromide dominance from a chemical put in almost everything that competes with iodine for the iodine receptor sites and wins knocking our iodine out of the system.  It is also strongly correlated with any reproductive area cancer (cervical, uterine, prostrate) and a host of other things from diabetes to obesity.

There is also a forum at curezone for iodine.

I have been on it 10 days after reading the book after some people told me about it.  I bet I have half of the things that have been helped by it on that list of ills.

One doctor found 90% of Americans are iodine deficient and I was told if you have breast cancer. you are iodine deficient for sure and to start on the iodine protocol from the book that has the cofactors that doctors who relooked at this issue found helped people.

Just a day of so I read that women under 30 who get breast cancer, that 80%of them eventually die form it even though all the lump was removed due to an early stage so it is a systemic disease that ones needs to find the causes of it rather than just treat the tumor and the cancer cells but rather fix what it is that is wrong in your body that is making cancer.

I suggest you look at all the posts I did here for some man recently to see some ideas of some things that have helped others and also check out chrisbeatancer and curezone for some alternative health info.

http://www.inspire.com/Beemer/journal/my-back-finally-lost-the-battle/?reply_sort=asc&page=2#replies

look for calendar_girl posts on page 2 and 3 I did three posts in all and these should be of help to anyone with breast cancer and other cancers and diseases for that matter.

I when they first found a different cancer insitu in 92 had only lumpectomy but it recurred in 95 I think this was cause they did not get it all and at that time I had 2 more lumpectomies with radiation..I have just read at this time they did not protect the heart and lungs like they do now and they had to give me more radiation than normal..at that time I was not as knowledgeable about alliterative health and would not have had radiation if I knew then what I do now. I was told the radiation can bounce of equipment and cause cancer in the glands in the neck, and the breasts..I was also told they would radiate some of my heart and lungs.

I was though taking about 150 supplement capsules (primarily antioxidants like grapeseed extract and pycnogenol, vitamin c etc. I also applied a cream in the hospital bathroom after radiation consisting of fresh aloe, calendula oil and vitamin e oil.

I was told I would have 5 terrible side effects by the radiation doctor who had had breast cancer and radiation herself  I only had 1 of these 5 and not as bad as normal..

I was told breast would be hard as the wall/rock and it is pretty much normal though denser than other that I would have several twingy sensations daily and I have never had one..I now forget the other two and also I would have 3rd degree burns by week tow,,I had none till week 5 they were stunned saying how lucky I was I did not tell them I was taking this stuff).

I had a live blood cells test a week later at a health herb conference someone talked me into going to..I did not tell them I had just completed radiation or anything and they found in the single drop of blood from my finger they looked at free radical damage in every cell in the sample..I was pretty shocked.  who knows what might have happened if I had not taken all those antioxidants that help with free radical damage.

I have since read they now recommend that one does not take radiation or chemo with antioxidants as it may interfere with the treatment I think it makes the cells too healthy maybe),

Anyhow I thought I was done with cancer till I recently found a large lump 19 years after the radiation. But this time it is invasive and grade three aggressive and a different cancer they say.

So it seems though the cancer was fixed something in me still makes me prone to cancer, I breastfed a long time on demand and have not wore a bra sine then (35 or so ears ago and bras some think can lead to cancer ..I =attribute it to several factors not eating healthy enough though I ate very healthy I was not vegan till more recently. my very negative thinking, depression, anxiety  anger hatred or grudges,frustration and just general negative and at times suidal ideation, not enough sunlight, and exercise and sleep, iodine deficiency...and a likely genetic link as there were three including me with breast cancer before 50...it wound up eventually killing the other two and cancer of other types in several relatives.

If one believes they are an unlucky victim and there is nothing they can do, they hand the ability to cure themselves over to a doctor and they do not then feel the ability to change their prognosis with a lifestyle change and yet so many people have cured themselves with these e natural type things and all the stories or programs I ever heard of used lots of raw fruit and veggies and juicing/juice fasting..

check out that link II gave and the book iodine crisis

I never realized these things might be connected to the radiation except for the cancer but I have had heart arrhythmia and many years of hacking and unbearable coughing so hard it threw my back out and made me feel like I ad fractured my ribs as radiated around the front and this would go on for several hours straight.not sure the cause of the radiation or something else but this may have been silent reflux so far though my lungs and heart seem ok but radiation can cause cancer and cancer can kill you like the heart. I believe I have a parathyroid tumor which is reeking havoc in my life and that came due those high level of radiation i got over a decade ago,.

just finished my rads. scary staff all was perfect till the last week. and then all hell broke loose... together with m skin. all body aicks... fever..... burns... fatiq like my sone didnot have a clean underware cause mother was not able to get out of bed. free radicals would be my second name

Absolutely no problems, going on three years.  Completed a 30-mile bike hike just this past weekend, as well as a two-hour trail ride. 

I just finished rads last Wednesday. I considered not having them. Actually that would have been my choice. Had a lumpectomy with clean margins and then a reduction. All of the tissue was tested and everything came out clean. My friends and family all wanted me to have the rads. Unfortunately my decision ended up being based on who I could live with, everyone tick off at me that I didn't do it, or me upset that I did. 

I was lucky(?) not to have any major skin issues. But because of the surgeries I had some severe pain inside by breast. RO kept telling me that the rads weren't causing it. Then why is it only happening in the radiated one and not in the other? One told me it was fat narcosis, which it very will could, but said that the rads didn't cause it.  Really? Almost every med journal out there says it is caused by trauma, surgery, and oh, Radiation. Since my rads have stopped my pain as demished by about 75%. I know I am going to somehow regret this decision. They never tell you ALL the side effects. The whole thing and chemo is so barbaric. My RO slipped one day and said that it would be a non issue if they could treat with a hyperbolic chamber, but that would be unrealistic. More unrealistic than chemo or rads? It just wouldn't be a big money maker. After all caner is a multi Billion Dollar business, not health care, business. And will be until people start demanding a cure and not just awareness. 

Ok Rant over Sorry......just passionate